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Mauritius Mauritius arboretum

Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Garden

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37% trees around it and 57 species recorded.

42Forestyas Score

Arboretum

  • trees within 3 km37%
  • wild within 10 km63%
  • species recorded57
  • Altitude75 m

The forest around

37% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 67%Grassland 8%Water 1%Cropland 9%Built-up 14%Trees 33%Grassland 14%Cropland 48%Built-up 5%Trees 39%Grassland 14%Water 0%Bare ground 0%Cropland 39%Built-up 8%Trees 39%Shrubland 0%Grassland 13%Water 16%Bare ground 0%Cropland 22%Built-up 9%37%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km67%
  • 1–3 km33%
  • 3–6 km39%
  • 6–10 km39%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees33%
  • Grassland14%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland48%
  • Built-up5%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

57 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Whisk fern
Whisk fernPsilotum nudum3 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bottle palmCR
Bottle palmHyophorbe lagenicaulis3 recordsBerthold Werner · Public domain
Pontederia crassipes
Pontederia crassipesPontederia crassipes3 recordsDataBase Center for Life Science (DBCLS) · CC BY 4.0
Tiger lotus
Tiger lotusNymphaea lotus3 recordsBentham-Moxon Trust.; Curtis, William; Curtis's botanical magazine dedications, 1827-1927 · Public domain
Jackfruit tree
Jackfruit treeArtocarpus heterophyllus3 recordsChirocca77 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Chinese Hibiscus
Chinese HibiscusHibiscus × rosa-sinensis3 recordsAndy / Andrew Fogg from near Cambridge, UK · CC BY 2.0
Madamfate
MadamfateHippobroma longiflora3 recordsrainerburkard · CC BY 4.0
Nut-grass
Nut-grassCyperus rotundus2 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Rickjpelleg assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY 2.5
Torch-ginger
Torch-gingerEtlingera elatior2 recordsDr. Thomas Liptak · CC BY-SA 4.0
Typhonodorum lindleyanum
Typhonodorum lindleyanumTyphonodorum lindleyanum2 recordsKENPEI · CC BY-SA 3.0
Achiote
AchioteBixa orellana2 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
CinnamonVU
CinnamonCinnamomum verum2 recordsUnknown author · Public domain

Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

42out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 37%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 63%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 57Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 75 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from June to September.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan28°26°128 mm
  2. Feb28°27°116 mm
  3. Mar28°27°122 mm
  4. Apr27°26°67 mm
  5. May26°25°41 mm
  6. Jun25°23°28 mm
  7. Jul24°22°26 mm
  8. Aug24°22°21 mm
  9. Sep24°22°24 mm
  10. Oct25°23°29 mm
  11. Nov26°24°29 mm
  12. Dec27°26°44 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Garden.

Garden in Pamplemousses, near Port Louis, Mauritius

Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Garden is an arboretum in Mauritius.

Seen from space, 37% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 63% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

57 species have been recorded around it: 16 plants, 9 fungi, 31 birds and 1 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Whisk fern, Bottle palm and Pontederia crassipes.

The best time to walk is from June to September.

Mon Plaisir im Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Garden
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Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Garden seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 1named and notable trees within 6 kmBaobab tree
  • 7shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 12car parks within 3 km
  • 111places to stay within 10 kmThe Westin Turtle Bay Resort & Spa, Mauritius, InterContinental Hotel, The Oberoi Hotel and 108 more
  • 11restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • campsites within 10 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Garden.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Peakyas47 mountains within 25 km
Pieter Both820 m · 9.7 kmLe Pouce812 m · 11 kmGoat Rock157 m · 12 kmGuiby Peak605 m · 13 kmJunction Peak192 m · 14 kmEast Peak291 m · 20 kmCorps de Garde720 m · 21 kmTrou aux Cerfs605 m · 24 km
Islandyasthe island
Mauritius Island1,874 km²
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Rivulet Terre Rouge Estuary Bird Sanctuary57 species · 10 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Footbridge at Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Garden
Benoît Prieur · CC0
Bâtiment à l'entrée principale du jardin de Pamplemousses (mars 2020)
Benoît Prieur · CC0
Jardin de Pamplemousses (3000869217)
mwanasimba from La Réunion · CC BY-SA 2.0

Other forests nearby.

Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Garden

Mauritius

  • 42Forestyas Score
  • 37%Trees
  • 63%Wild
  • 57Species

Curepipe Botanic Gardens

Mauritius · 25 km

  • 60Forestyas Score
  • 64%Trees
  • 80%Wild
  • 31Species

See the guide

Forêt du Tapcal

France · 251 km

  • 65Forestyas Score
  • 38%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 756Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q931430) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species1,453 open records within 2 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Islandyas, Birdyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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